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Information about the package, xs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xs package is designed for, Shell supporting functional programming.


Package Name:

xs

Summary:

Shell supporting functional programming

Description:

Xs is a cleanly-designed shell with functional programming. It is based off the source-code for the es project, which was in the public domain. Currently, the changes in xs can also be considered to be in the public domain. Most of the xs source code remains untouched from es. The primary authors of that shell can be found in that source code, currently located at: ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/es/. Modifications since es-0.9-beta1 are all parts of xs and have been written by Frederic Koehler.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.1

Release:

2.git9c19777.el6

Size:

109 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

Public Domain



Handy Yum Commands for xs


Control the xs package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install xs

This command will install xs on the server.

yum remove xs

This command will un-install xs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove xs

This command will un-install xs on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xs when using the -y flag.

yum update xs

This command will update xs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update xs

This command will update xs to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xs when using the -y flag.

yum info xs

This command will show you core information about the xs package.

yum deplist xs

This command will show you the dependencies for xs. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update xs

This command will check if there is an update waiting on xs. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.